The alleged reasons for
condemning relationships
with Spirits do not
withstand serious
examination.
“(...) repelling
mediumistic
communications is to
repudiate the most
powerful means of
instruction”. - Allan
Kardec 1
The Communicability
of Spirits, an
immediate consequence of
the Immortality of
the Soul, are the
two basic points of
Spiritism, in which the
COMFORTER aspect of this
wonderful Doctrine is
anchored. Moreover, it
is not without reason
that Jesus prophesied2 its
advent with such
identification: "I
will pray the Father,
and He shall give you
another COMFORTER..."
After all, is it not a
great consolation to us
to be sure that the
people we love and who
preceded us on the
journey back Home, in
the Greater World, are
not lost on the Other
Side? Is it not good
news to know that it is
just a matter of time
before a happy reunion
can be established with
those who bond with us
in expressions of
affection?
When we commonly hear: “I
lost so and so”,
referring to the “death”
of someone, it is
evident that those who
say this have no
knowledge about
Spiritism. Likewise when
they also say, “Ah!
Shame! He rested! (?)”.
Such creatures – not
duly informed – do not
know that there are many
Spirits begging for
reincarnation so that,
once erected in the
somatic body, they can
rest a little, since
they feel very tired,
worn out, exhausted on
the Other Side...
In his portentous and
unique series, Andre
Luiz, through the
blessed and also
unparalleled mediumship
of our late Chico
Xavier, reveals some
faces of the Spiritual
World to our eyes and
then, we can perceive,
even if superficially,
the complexity of the
works available to those
who want to accomplish
them. Therefore, the
Other Side is not a
resting place... By the
way, many of those
Spirits who requested to
re-enter the physical
body to rest are already
here, because what
about the people "who
are just hanging around
in life watching the
band go by at random"
(have you noticed the
crowds that get confused
at carnival? Can you
quantify it?” However,
let us leave them aside,
because in fact what
such people will really
lose is the possibility
of Spiritual ascension,
and let us return to our
theme: "Communicability
of Spirits".
The Communicability
of Spirits is a
proven fact even in the
ancestral Bible that
many only carry under
their arm, but do not
let its content
penetrate their brain,
lost as they are in the
embarrassment and damage
of the “letter that
kills”.
Let us delight ourselves
with the unsophisticated
logic of the illustrious
Lionize Master when he
analyzes the “anemic”
and unfounded arguments
of these Spirit phobic
leaders, showing them
the inconsistency in
which they indulge.
Moreover, considering
that they always start
by saying that Moses
forbade mediumship,
forgetting, (by
purpose), that there are
two distinct parts to
the law of Moses: the
Law of God itself,
promulgated on Mount
Sinai, (by the way
through a mediumistic
phenomenon of
pyrography); and the
civil or disciplinary
law, appropriate to the
customs and character of
the people. The first
[the Law of God] is
invariable, while the
other [the civil law]
changes with time. The
ban on communicating
with the "dead" falls
within the scope of the
latter, and already
revoked by Moses
himself. When in his
luminous appearance
together with Elijah on
Mount Tabor, before the
astonishment of Peter,
James and John,
eyewitnesses of the
fact, talked with Jesus
about His last moments
on the planet and the
culmination of His
mission with us, thus
inaugurating the era of
mediumship.
Let us therefore follow
the luminous reasoning
of the incomparable
Lioness Master: “(...)
if Moses forbade evoking
the dead, it is that
they could come,
otherwise the
prohibition would be
useless. Well, if the
dead could come back
then, they can come
today too; and if the
Spirits of the dead
come, they are not
exclusively demons.
Moreover, Moses by no
means speaks of these
latter.
The reason why one
cannot logically accept
the authority of Moses
in the species is
twofold, namely: —
first, because his law
does not govern
Christianity; and,
second, because it is
unbecoming to the
customs of our time.
However, let us suppose
that this law has the
fullness of authority
given by some. However,
as we have seen, it
cannot apply to
Spiritism. It is true
that the prohibition of
Moses includes the
interrogation of the
dead, but in a secondary
way, as an accessory to
the practices of
witchcraft. The very
word interrogation,
together with those of
soothsayer and
soothsayer, proves that
among the Hebrews,
evocations were a means
of guessing; however,
Spiritists only evoke
the dead to receive wise
advice and obtain relief
in favor of those who
suffer, never to obtain
illicit revelations.
Certainly, if the
Hebrews used
communications as the
Spiritists do, far from
prohibiting them, Moses
would encourage them,
because his people would
only have to profit.
Still another reason is
alleged: — souls remain
in the abode that divine
justice assigns them —
which is equivalent to
saying in Heaven or in
hell. Thus, those who
are in hell cannot leave
there, since for that
purpose the widest
freedom is granted to
the demons. Those in
Heaven, entirely given
over to their beatitude,
are far superior to
mortals to take care of
them, and are happy
enough not to return to
this land of miseries,
in the interest of
relatives and friends
who left here. So these
souls can be compared to
the rich governors and
princes of the colony of
India, who look away
from the poor for fear
of upsetting their
digestion. However, if
that were the case,
these souls would show
themselves to be
unworthy of supreme
bliss, transforming
themselves into a
pattern of selfishness!
Therefore, it is a case
of saying: if souls
cannot come, there is no
need to fear disturbing
their rest.
However, here another
difficulty arises: if
the blessed souls cannot
leave the glorious
mansion to help mortals,
why does the Church
invoke the assistance of
the saints who must
enjoy an even greater
sum of beatitude? Why do
you advise invoking them
in cases of illness,
affliction, of scourges?
For what reason, and
according to that same
Church, do the saints
and the Virgin herself
appear to men and
perform miracles? These
leave Heaven to descend
to Earth. However, those
who are less elevated
cannot do it!
Let skeptics deny the
manifestation of vain
souls, since they do not
believe in them; but
what is strange is to
see people raging
against the means of
proving their existence,
striving to demonstrate
the impossibility of
these means, the very
ones whose beliefs rest
on the existence and
future of souls! It
seems that it would be
more natural to accept
as a benefit of
Providence the means of
confusing skeptics with
irrefutable proofs,
since they are the
deniers of religion
itself. Those who have
an interest in the
existence of the soul
constantly deplore the
avalanche of unbelief
that invades, decimating
the flock of believers.
However, when the most
powerful means of
combating is presented
to them, they refuse it
with as much or more
obstinacy than the
unbelievers themselves
do. Then, when the
evidence is so
overwhelming that there
is no room for doubt,
they seek to ban the
matter as a supreme
argument, seeking, to
justify it, an article
of the Mosaic law that
no one had thought of,
lending it, by force, a
non-existent meaning and
application. In
addition, they are so
happy with the discovery
that they do not realize
that this article is
still a justification of
the Spiritist Doctrine.
No alleged reasons for
condemning communication
with Spirits withstand
serious examination.
From the ardor with
which this is fought, it
is easy to deduce the
great interest attached
to the subject. Hence
the insistence. Seeing
this crusade of all
cults against
demonstrations, one
would say that they are
terrified of them.
The real reason could
well be the fear that
very enlightened Spirits
would come to instruct
men on points that are
intended to be obscured,
giving them knowledge,
at the same time, of the
certainty of another
world, along with the
true conditions for
being happy there or for
being unfortunate. The
cult that is with the
absolute truth will have
nothing to fear from the
light, because the light
makes the truth shine
and the devil can do
nothing against it.
Rejecting communications
from beyond the grave is
repudiating the most
powerful means of
instructing oneself,
either through
initiation into the
knowledge of the future
life, or through the
examples that such
communications provide
us. Experience teaches
us, moreover, the good
we can do, diverting
imperfect Spirits from
evil, helping those who
suffer to detach
themselves from matter
and to perfect
themselves. To ban
communications is,
therefore, to deprive
suffering souls of the
assistance that we can
and must give them”.
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